Snow Country (1957)
- Original title
- 雪国
- Directed by
- Shirō Toyoda
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A wealthy man travels to a remote snowy hot spring town and begins a relationship with a geisha. Their connection is marked by distance and unspoken feelings.
melancholicslow-burnvisually lushcoldlonelycontemplativeromanticsubtlepoetic
What happens
Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni) is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda, based on the novel of the same name by Yasunari Kawabata. The film was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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